The Hudak Report 05/16/25

Al Jazeera: In Gaza, the Nakba is being relived in 2025

Al Jazeera: ‘One long Nakba’: Palestinians mark 77 years since mass expulsion by Israel

CBC News: Mapping Canada’s PFAS hotspots

HuffPost: Supreme Court Conservatives Wrangle With Letting Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Restriction Go Into Effect

Liberation: The real history of Palestine’s Nakba

Yahoo! News: Canada hasn't done enough to stop exploitation of foreign workers: Amnesty

Canadian political news:

• Alberta government amends referendum bill in effort to placate First Nations' concern

• Bloc Québécois to challenge Terrebonne election result in court

• Eby to visit Japan, South Korea and Malaysia on trade trip to reduce U.S. reliance

Other Canada news:

• A BC ostrich cull has brought out climate conspiracies — and RFK Jr.

• Alberta regulator approves Northback coal exploration project in Rocky Mountains

• Canada ranked 19th out of 36 countries in child well-being, UNICEF says

• DEA threat assessment points to fentanyl 'super laboratories' in Canada

• Ice roads are a lifeline for First Nations. As Canada warms, they’re disappearing.

• Manitoba seeks more firefighters to battle raging wildfires; Whiteshell under state of emergency

Trump administration news:

• Iowa: Judge cites lack of confidence in Homeland Security, issues injunction in UI case

• RFK Jr. Is Coming for Abortion Pills

• Trump administration threatens groups that distributed federal aid for migrants

• Trump’s "big, beautiful bill" buries a threat to free speech on page 380

• US judge dismisses charges against migrants caught in military zone

Other US news:

• Bad River Band argues against federal permit for Line 5 reroute

• Indiana: Attorney General Todd Rokita launches inquiry into Notre Dame’s DEI policies

• Florida becomes second state to ban fluoride in public water

• 'Intentional misconduct': Supreme Court orders new trial for death row inmate Douglas Carter

• Montana Becomes First State to Close the Law Enforcement Data Broker Loophole

• NYU withholds diploma of student who condemned Israel in graduation speech

• People get ready: Protest on the anniversary of George Floyd’s murder

• The State of Georgia Dehumanizes A Black Mother Into An Incubator

• US DOJ investigates UnitedHealth for alleged Medicare fraud: Report

Palestinian genocide and other Israeli and US aggressions in the Middle East:

• Death Toll in Gaza Rises to 82 Amid Relentless Israeli Airstrikes

• Israeli, Syrian officials met secretly in Baku: Report

• Thousands Flee in Gaza City After Israel Issues Mass Displacement Orders and Vows to Attack ”With Great Force”

• UN rejects US-backed Gaza aid plan over neutrality concerns

Other world news:

• 13 injured as car crashes into crowd at Espanyol-Barcelona match

• 500,000 Syrian refugees return since regime change

• Al Qaeda affiliate says 200 soldiers killed in Burkina Faso attack

• Brazil antideforestation operation blacklists more than 500 farms in the Amazon

• Germany could reintroduce military draft: Defense minister

• In India, Indigenous women and their ‘dream maps’ seek to protect lands from climate change

• New anti-NGO law pushes Peru’s democracy deeper into ‘invisible crisis’

• Smith’s snack food workers strike in South Australia

• UK’s Starmer seeking third countries to set up asylum seeker ‘return hubs’

• Zelenskyy sends team for peace talks but says Russia ‘not serious enough’

• America’s immigration system was a landmine, and Trump set it off

• Bureaucracy and Health Care costs explode, the CAQ betrays its commitments

• There’s much talk about building a stronger Canada, but silence about the one strategy that actually worked

• We need a broad coalition in Canada to demand our new government stop arming Israel